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Project Overview

This dashboard presents the analysis of medal counts for Summer and Winter Olympic Games. It presents analyses of top sports by medals, identifies top country medalists and depicts how country medal counts changed over time and between summer and winter sports.

Data for the project come from The Guardian (https://www.kaggle.com/the-guardian/olympic-games) and covers the results of Summer and Winter Olympic Games between their modern inception in 1896 and 2014. The data are separated into two csv files - one for summer and one for winter games. Each file contains the following variables: year of the games, location of the games, medal holder’s name, medal type, sport, discipline and event, medal holder’s country and gender.

R Studio Version 1.2.1335 was used for the analyses and Flexdashboard Version 0.5.2 package was used for creating the dashboard.

Overview

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Overall Gold Medals Awarded

12,407

Overall Silver Medals Awarded

12,240

Overall Bronze Medals Awarded

12,288

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Summer Games: Medal Count by Country (Overall Between 1896 and 2014)

Winter Games: Medal Count by Country (Overall Between 1896 and 2014)

Top Medalist Countries Analysis

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Most Medals by a Country in Summer Games

442

Most Medals by a Country in Winter Games

98

Most Medals by a Country in a Sport

94

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Top Medalist Countries

Top Three Medalist Countries Over Time

Exploratory Analysis

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Total Number of Sports

82

Total Number of Participant Countries

149

Average Number of Medals per Country

764.8

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Summer Olympics: Top 10 Sports by Medals Awarded

Summer Olympics: Top Sports Mentioned

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Winter Olympics: Top 10 Sports by Medals Awarded

Winter Olympics: Top Sports Mentioned